Responding Well When You Don't Have Control

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English - December 12, 2022 23:20 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB
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Intro & Housekeeping,
2:14: Thorns in the flesh, David and Saul, pride.
4:50: Behold the Lamb of God.
6:49: Parenting struggles with our 4 year old.
8:52: Forgetting bad things with your kids, the struggle with our human nature, why health and wealth. seems so appealing.
10:51: Community Comments on the news, anxiety and hopelessness.
12:28: Our desire to know and control, be omniscient like God, and our finite capacity to do so.
14:43: Embracing the life God gives us and just rolling with it.
15:50: Great Christmas books: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever; The Family Under the Bridge, Great Joy.
17:59: Lessons from the book of Judges about trying to control our world and being drawn away from the Lord because we’re trying to control.
22:22: “Going well” is different for God than it is with us.
27:05: The tension of the whole human life: enjoying your work but doing so in a fallen world and bumping against uncomfortable things- it’s for God’s glory.
28:55 Unbelievers thriving and the unjust and God’s glory will get accomplished eventually.
29:35: John Piper on Forgiveness, Justice and Mercy, Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace; Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
34:10 The death of Molly’s great uncle and The Forgotten 500 from WW2
41:35: Death and Christmas and permanent loss
43:30: Control, Jesus’ humility and working for our salvation
45:38: Derek Webb, Abraham Piper, and Josh Harris themes on not being good enough
49:09: Being good and being good enough to earn salvation, psychologizing Christianity.
54:10: Freedom in our lack of control: don’t overcomplicate, do what’s in front of you today, eat drink and be merry.

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